Lefosse Advogados

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Lefosse Advogados is a leading Brazilian law firm based in São Paulo, offering expert advice in Brazilian law, with capital markets, corporate/M&A, litigation, finance, tax, competition, and employment practices. Founded in 1987, the firm represents the consolidation of a strong and continuous practice, acting for high-profile clients in their most challenging deals.

In July 2001, Lefosse Advogados entered into a cooperation with Linklaters in response to our clients increasing desire for high-quality Brazilian and international legal advice delivered in an integrated manner. Clients benefit from an experienced Brazilian practice with deep local roots, combined with all the advantages of a top global firm.

Our lawyers are highly talented and committed problem solvers. Their depth of experience simplifies complex issues and their flexible approach delivers not only the most innovative solutions, but also ones that will work best for our clients.

Our key areas of practice

Corporate and M&A: The firm’s corporate and M&A practice has a highly qualified team with expertise in mergers, acquisitions, reorganisations and; private equity; corporate and commercial law; projects and venture capital.

Capital markets and securities: The firm has worked extensively on international and domestic capital markets transactions, focusing particularly on debt and equity, derivatives and structured products, and securitisation and structured finance. The firm´s capital markets practice encompasses the whole range of capital-markets activity, including IPOs and rights offerings, convertible and exchangeable bonds, MTN programs and DIPs, high-yield offerings, structured products and derivatives.

Tax: The firm advises on all aspects of direct and indirect taxation, in particular on tax aspects in connection with mergers and acquisitions, the formation of joint ventures, capital market and cross-border transactions. The firm’s expertise includes value-added tax issues, international taxation, transfer pricing, customs and double taxation, tax planning and tax litigation.

Banking: The firm’s experience includes acting for arranging banks and lenders, as well as credit enhancers and borrowers, in a wide range of industrial and financial sectors.

Competition & antitrust: Advice on cross-border and domestic mergers, investigations of anticompetitive practices, due diligences and compliance programmes. The firm also has experience in handling disputes in economic, competition and consumer protection areas before the judicial courts.

Employment: The firm’s employment practice advises clients on a worldwide basis in corporate and M&A transactions, international transfer of employees and employee’s incentive.

Environment: The firm’s environmental team advises on a wide variety of environmental work, such as legal due diligence, environment litigation, ethical investment, climate change and renewables.

Litigation & arbitration: Expertise in alternative dispute resolution, arbitration, banking litigation, collection/enforcement, commercial litigation, due diligence, environmental/energy litigation, product liability litigation, regulatory investigations and restructuring and insolvency litigation.

Projects: The firm’s projects group has unparalleled experience of advising banks, sponsors, multilateral institutions, project companies and governments on financing and developing projects in many sectors. The firm has extensive experience of reviewing and analysing concession, construction and maintenance arrangements as well as drafting and negotiating complex financing and security packages.

Restructuring & insolvency: The firm acts for creditors (banks, other financial investors and creditors, steering committees), insolvency practitioners, corporate debtors and their directors/officers in relation to debt rescheduling; debt and equity restructuring; planning, initiation and conducting of judicial and extrajudicial restructuring and insolvency proceedings; undertaking of asset and debt recovery and investigation; banking litigation; derivatives and structured products; incorporation of non-standarised credit rights investment funds (FIDC-NP).

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